the problem with child care in NYC, in a nutshell (via @karen_yi for @Gothamist) gothamist.com/news/why-child…
"The report found that households in Mott Haven and Hunts Point in the Bronx spent as much as 63% of their income on infant and toddler care and just 0.4% of families could afford it, based on federal affordability standards. But the problem doesn’t just affect low-income areas."
@AndrewGiambrone @ajlamesa @karen_yi @Gothamist The problem with child care nationwide, really!
@AndrewGiambrone @karen_yi @Gothamist And people are somehow puzzled by falling birth rates
@AndrewGiambrone @karen_yi @Gothamist "needs to be filled by taxpayer spending" Alternately, the buyers and sellers in the supply vs demand relationship determine what their needs are applied across the resources they have available and modify their desires beyond having others pay to meet their desires.
@AndrewGiambrone @karen_yi @Gothamist Why don’t grandparents do it?
@AndrewGiambrone @karen_yi @Gothamist Commercializing childcare failed. Thankfully there is a solution that worked for thousands of years.